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  Muse's Olympics Anthem Almost Featured Elton John

  August 3, 2012 – "Survival," Muse's contribution to the 2012 Olympic Games, is extremely dramatic, but it might have had some additional flair had their original collaborator come through. …
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  Hot Chip Are Soundtracking Olympic Table Tennis

  July 25, 2012 – Muse aren't the only Brit band that can spruce up an Olympics event. Hot Chip may not have a propensity to go quite as epicas their fellow countrymen, but they've been tapped to provide the introductory soundtrack to the Summer Games' table tennis competition. …
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  Blame Skrillex for Muse's Dubstep Song

  July 25, 2012 – Fans upset by Muse's dubsteppy direction on their forthcoming sixth studio record,The 2nd Law, can go ahead and blame a Forbes list infiltrator and SPIN cover star for the change in direction: one Mister Sonny Moore. "We went to see Skrillex in Camden around October," drummer Dom Howard told NME as Muse revealed their muse. "We went, 'Fuck, it's so heavy,' loved it. …
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  See Muse's Olympics-Themed Video for Olympics Theme 'Survival'

  July 5, 2012 – The video for Muse's official 2012 Olympic Games theme "Survival" has hit YouTube, and it's a montage of footage featuring athletes from previous Olympics. In keeping with the song's Muse-ly grand scale, the video has an expansive scope, spanning from black-and-white footage of long-ago sprints to more recent clips of beach volleyball, Michael Phelps, and, yup, dressage. …
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  Muse Admit There's Dubstep and a 'Jazzy Brass Number' on '2nd Law' LP

  June 28, 2012 – A few weeks after dropping a dubstep bomb on an album teaser, alerting fans they'd sort of be following in the footsteps of Korn on their forthcoming sixth studio LP The 2nd Law, Muse have confirmed there will be wub on the record — but analog wub. "We've basically tried to do what Rage Against the Machine did with hip-hop in the 1990s and take a bit of the electronic world and dubstep and play it with real instruments," frontman …
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  Hear Muse's Appropriately Epic Olympics Theme 'Survival'

  June 27, 2012 – Muse's official 2012 Olympic Games theme "Survival" arrived today via BBC Radio. Shockingly (or not, given the Queen will probably be in attendance at some point), the five-minute song boasts none of the dubstep gewgaws we heard in the trailer for their forthcoming sixth record, The 2nd Law. …
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  Watch the Killers' Dubstep-Free 'Battle Born' Trailer

  June 7, 2012 – From the looks of the cinematic trailer the Killers just dropped for their forthcoming follow-up to 2008's Day & Age, their next album Battle Born will not follow fellow '00s rockers Muse into the land of wub. The 1:38 of music below via Stereogum indicates the band is sticking to its plan — lots of the '80s keyboard-driven goodness and a few Springsteen-esque grabs at the golden ring. …
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  Muse Hint at Dubsteppy New Direction in '2nd Law' Teaser

  June 6, 2012 – Muse have officially announced the release of their sixth studio album, which they started recording in November (a much faster turnaround than No Doubt's studio sessions). Fans' first glimpses of The 2nd Law, the follow-up to 2009's The Resistance, now come from an über-cinematic trailer that showcases, among the requisite apocalyptic visual markers, a certain new, un-Muse-y flavor. …
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  Muse Hit the Studio for Planned Fall 2012 Album

  November 21, 2011 – Expect hugeness. Arena-scale English rockers Muse have hit the studio to start work on their sixth album, and the follow-up to 2009's The Resistance could arrive by next fall. …
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  Green Day's "Secret" Gig, Muse Talk Next LP + More

  August 10, 2011 – Green Day will play an intimate gig on August 11 at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, CA, one of the group's smallest shows in years. The one-off performance will raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Tickets are available at the door for $20 (cash only) and there is a strict no-camera/no-cellphone policy. [L.A. …
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